Lords Sitting of 10 June 1842

MINUTES.
BILLS. Public.—2a. Property (Income) Tax.
3a. and passed:—Civil Bill Decrees (Ireland)"
Private.—2a. Wicklow Harbour; Metropolitan Wood Paving Company; North American Colonial Association (Ireland); Gravesend Town Pier; Fleetwood Improvement; Medbourn Inclosure; Lough Foyle Drainage.
Reported.—Great North of England Railway; Boston Harbour (No. 3); Brentford Gas; Burntisland and Granton Pier and Ferry.
3a. and passed:—Duke of Argyll's Estate; Kingstown Mariner's Church; Warkworth Harbour; Liverpool Borough Court; Dundalk Road; Gravesend Terrace Pier; Ashton's Divorce.
PETITIONS PRESENTED. By the Earl of Yarborough, the Marquess of Clanricarde, and the Marquess of Normanby,

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from York, Grimsby, Burnley, St. James's, Westminster, and Poole, against the Property Tax Bill—From the Guardians of the Ware Union, for Exemption from the Payment of Parochial or County Rates.—By the Bishop of Exeter, from Derby, Brailsford, and Kentisbeare, against any further Grant to Maynooth College.—From Dalbury, for Church Extension.—By the Bishop of Exeter, from Frome, and Selwood, for the substitution of Declarations in lieu of Oaths; and from Drumleare, Tashinny, Abbeyshrub, Armaduff, Kemps District, and Connor, for the Encouragement of Schools in connexion with the Church Education Society (Ireland)—By Lord Brougham, from Mill-owners at Bingley, for Limiting the Hours of Attendance of all Persons in the Factories. —From Prince Edward Island, that the Duties on Colonial Corn and Salted Provisions may cease.

INCOME-TAX.
Viscount Melbourne,on the part of his noble Friend (Marquess of Lansdowne) who had given notice of a motion on the Income-tax, and who had been suddenly attacked with indisposition, had no objection to the second reading of the Income-tax bill taking place that night sub silentio, on the understanding that his noble Friend's resolution should be moved and the debate taken on the next stage of going into committee.
Arrangement acquiesced in.
Bill read a second time.
House adjourned.